The Project for the Study of the 21st Century is a new global think tank for a new global era. A unique collection of people, broad in background, and eclectic in outlook. Focused on finding new ways of telling stories and exploring issues. Non-national, non-partisan, non-ideological. Content people read, discussions they remember. Incorporated in August 2014 and launched formally in January 2015, PS21 has already proved much of its concept. It has recruited several dozen global fellows from government, private sector, activist, academic and other backgrounds. It has published a bestselling Kindle Single e-book as well as a hardcopy version and established offices in Washington D.C., New York and London. The overall concept is relatively simple: build a worldwide network of fellows and produce truly original events and content for a popular as well as professional/specialist audience. Built heavily around a team of dedicated and enthusiastic volunteers, it has very low overheads but serious ambitions. The scope is deliberately broad — dissecting the major issues of the 21st-century, from changing power dynamics to the impact of technology and globalisation. When it tackles a subject, it will do so with an eye to those big questions. But it is also an exercise in popular communication, looking at finding ways of addressing the larger picture often through hard-hitting personal accounts. Sometimes iconoclastic, often irreverent, ever so slightly feral.
